An outpost of the insect overlords (part two)

Giant Ant Colony Mine (#27/30, #331/365)

"Where the desert meets the foothills is a large hole in the ground. From this emanates a steady stream of pale Giant Ants, carrying dirt out the hole and dumping in a mound nearby. Here and there, guarding their charges, are larger brown Giant Ants with jagged mandibles, and even some of the centaur-like human/ant hybrids that are the Xoroa, clutching at broad-bladed iron spears."

Contents: This is a Xoroa iron mine, attached to the settlement at Kul-Tha, using domesticated Giant Ants to extract metal from the earth below for valuable trade elsewhere. The Xoroa also use the iron from the mine to forge their distinctive broad-bladed spears and javelins that they wield to defend themselves.

Heroes that enter this area in hostile fashion will immediately be engaged by 1 of 2 Xoroa Warriors on guard duty, while the other blows their horn to summon any further Warriors present at the mine. The Giant Soldier Ants will attack also. The Worker Ants will shelter in the mine and only fight when defending themselves.

The Xoroa are however highly amenable to trade. All Warriors have 1 point in a heavily click-based version of Allansian, while anybody with any points in the Xoroa language can halve all prices listed below. If the Heroes are non-hostile and keen to buy product, these are the following prices (and current products of the mine):

2-7 chunks of iron ore. 10GP per chunk.

1-6 Spears. 10GP per Spear

2-12 Javelins.  10GP per Javelin

Stats:

2-7 XOROA OVERSEERS, SKILL 10 STAMINA 11, Spear or Javelin.

Each Xoroa Warrior is armed with a Spear and two Javelins and carries a carved-bone summoning horn, which, when blown, will summon all other Xoroa Warriors to the area. They also have 1-6 GP each in a leather pouch.

2-12 GIANT SOLDIER ANTS, SKILL 7 STAMINA 8, Large Bite.

4-24 GIANT WORKER ANTS, SKILL 4 STAMINA 4, Small Bite.